Magicicada septendecula

Magicicada septendecula
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Auchenorrhyncha
Family:	Cicadidae
Genus:	Magicicada
Species:	M. septendecula
Binomial name
Magicicada septendecula Alexander & Moore, 1962

Magicicada septendecula is a species of insect in family Cicadidae. It is endemic to the United States.

Lifespan

Their median lifespan from egg to natural adult death is around seventeen years. However, their lifespan can range between thirteen and twenty-one years. ^[2]

References

1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Magicicada septendecula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T12692A3373704. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T12692A3373704.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Campbell, Matthew (18 August 2015). "Genome expansion via lineage splitting and genome reduction in the cicada endosymbiont Hodgkinia - Supporting Information" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112 (33): 10192–10199. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1421386112 . PMC   4547289 . PMID   26286984 . Retrieved 13 October 2020.

• Alexander, Richard D; Moore, Thomas Edwin (1962), The Evolutionary Relationships of 17-year and 13-year Cicadas, and Three New Species (Homoptera, Cicadidae, Magicicada), Ann Arbor: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan